TUESDAY, Dec. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Taxi and ambulance drivers need to have quick wits and nimble reflexes to cut through traffic effectively. Turns out that these traits might also protect them from Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study published Dec. 16 in the BMJ. “The same partContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Keeping your blood pressure in check is important for more than just heart health — it can also keep your brain sharp as you age. A new study published Dec. 11 in the journal Neurology shows that seniors whose blood pressure spikes andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — For children genetically predisposed to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), exposure to cigarette smoke in the family home could raise that risk even higher, new research shows. “A higher genetic MS risk is associated with an increased vulnerability to the negative effects of householdContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Some people develop epilepsy after surviving a stroke, as the injury they’ve sustained causes scarring and disorganized electrical activity in their brains. But one type of blood pressure medication seems to help stroke survivors avoid post-stroke epilepsy (PSE), according to a first-of-its-kind studyContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Hockey players’ chances of developing concussion-related brain injury increase with every year they spend on the ice, a new study finds. The odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increase among hockey players 34% for each year played, researchers reported Dec. 4 inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Decades of lead exposure from car exhaust altered the mental health of millions of Americans, making them more prone to depression, anxiety and ADHD, a new study claims. Lead was first added to gasoline in 1923 to help keep car engines healthy, researchersContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks soon might have their brain activity scanned using a temporary tattoo, a new study suggests. This temporary scalp tattoo allowed researchers to track electrical brain activity much more easily than with conventional electrodes, researchers reported Dec. 2 in the journal Cell Biomaterials.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation technique is helping the 54-year-old Jäger walk and move again. “Last year onContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Concussion-related brain damage can combine with a family history of mental illness to make some athletes and military personnel prone to aggression and violence in middle age, a new study says. People with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are at higher risk of moodContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A child from a poorer neighborhood is more prone to severe illness once they develop multiple sclerosis (MS) compared to children growing up in more affluent areas, new research shows. The study of 138 MS patients who’d been diagnosed before the age ofContinue Reading